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thefoundation2020-05-02 07:08 pm
finalring) wrote in thefoundation2020-05-02 07:08 pm
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the truth is, everyone wishes to be saved.
The execution has come and passed with the death of two more Agents. However time moves on without cease and so must the living. There are no celebrations, only the silence that grows heavier and heavier with every day and the feeling that something is pleased with what it has done.
There are two more days before the new week arrives: what will you do?
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[But he doesn't offer an answer either; verbally dancing out of the way like this is easy for him, and usually much easier where he comes from, just the straightforward exchange of words, taunts, and blades. Here the stakes are ostensibly lower for the moment, but the small smirk he's wearing is somehow satisfied anyway.
Maybe his eyebrow is raised as a challenge, then, or maybe he's just amused that Hikage seems so engaged in discussions about capitalism. He's not exactly the first one, just the most overdressed.]
Haha. I could give you the whole spiel, but that might be a bit dull. We're a network management company -- you could say we're the lifeblood of the modern world? [does that sound like part of a spiel, it definitely sounds like it, but the lightness in his tone rolls with it] As for your little flock... Informally, then.
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And really, his engagement is just one way of him trying to hide that network management was more likely to apply to some type of fishing as far as his knowledge extends. When you can magic up cellphones you don't exactly need to understand how they work and all. ]
If you need that many workers, then blood isn't a bad metaphor. [ He swings his legs down to the floor from his perch, though he doesn't stand up just yet. ]
Informally works. As long as you're not calling me a shepherd.
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The real travesty is that they've thus far failed to consolidate any cellphone shenanigans -- alas, some select models are just as doomed as their owners, forever fated to be consigned to the dusty corners of a not-so-world wide web.]
It's a metaphor that works on more than one level, I suppose, as all good ones must.
[He tilts his head, catching the movement, and straightens from his wall-leaning to do some proper final stretching, a brief yawn.]
Hmm. Who knows where you'd shepherd that flock off to.
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A garden, of course. [ With a tap, tap of his heels against the floor he stands and tucks his book under his arm. ]
But I wouldn't call it shepherding either or they might realize they're getting corralled somewhere. It's easier to lead the flock from inside it.
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[Not that Hikage's shown overt signs of being a proper gardener either way -- really more of a garden ornament at this point, though he has nothing on their amazing living lawn ornament twenty years from now -- but it's something he'll poke at in parting anyway.
There's a tilt of his head at the following metaphor, or perhaps it's a leading metaphor in this case.]
And I'd say that's a little scarier than a shepherd or a duck. [he rolls the word scary like it's going out of style] A wolf in sheep's clothing, then?
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[ He meets Subete's curiosity with a wry smile. ]
Something like that. But I wouldn't fancy myself a wolf, they're not vibrant enough for my taste. [ Which may be most of the point really, because he is all about showmanship when he makes his move. And with that he'll turn to leave before he gets caught in any other kind of nets, given he is a butterfly and all. ]